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Opinion | Why Law Minister’s Reductionist Approach to History of Adult Suffrage is Misleading

On August 10, 1928, Pandit Motilal Nehru (1861-1931) shot off a letter to Dr MA Ansari, President, All Parties Conference, enclosing a report...

27.02.2024 5

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Opinion | Can The Prime Meridian Be Shifted From Greenwich To Ujjain?

Mohan Yadav, the newly ensconced Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, has hit the headlines with some ambitious plans in the domain of astronomy. His...

03.01.2024 10

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Opinion | India’s Journey: From Mother of Chess to Chess Superpower

Remember, around the time Vikram lander was negotiating a soft landing on the far side of the moon as part of the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission,...

17.12.2023 6

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Opinion | Simultaneous Elections: Government Needs a Sherpa, Not Another Committee

Touted as ‘One Nation, One Election’, the idea of simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly elections have resurfaced in...

08.12.2023 9

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Opinion | Why Political Settlement is in Quandary in West Asia

Way back in 1989, during the first Intifada (1987-93), former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban had stated that the Palestinian Liberation...

01.12.2023 4

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Opinion | When Moshe Dayan Visited India Secretly

1977 marked a point of departure in the politics of both India and Israel, two multi-party parliamentary democracies. In March 1977, a non-Congress...

08.11.2023 5

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Opinion | Sardar Patel’s Son, Dahyabhai, Was A Rare Pro-Israeli Parliamentarian

On December 21, 1964, with India in the grip of a severe food shortage, the then Minister of Food and Agriculture Chidambaram Subramaniam fumbled for...

31.10.2023 100

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Opinion | SYL Canal Debate: Punjab Has Already Been Exporting ‘Virtual’ Water

A recent order of a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court has reignited the debate on the Sutlej-Yamnua Link (SYL) Canal that involves the transfer...

21.10.2023 4

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Opinion | Hamas: Camel Cannot Hide Its Hump

“Khaybar, Khaybar Ya Yehud, jaysh Muhammad Sawf Ya’ud” was a slogan coined by Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hasan Yasin (1937-2004) during the tumultuous...

13.10.2023 2

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Opinion | ‘Bharat’ is Great, But Can We Afford to Lose ‘Brand India’?

There is a buzz that the government may soon introduce a resolution to exclude India from the official name of the republic. The Article 1 of the...

12.09.2023 2

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